E3 Alliance is a regional, data-driven education collaborative based in Austin, Texas. We are helping to build the
strongest educational pipeline in the country to drive regional economic prosperity. Founded in 2006, E3 Alliance acts
as a catalyst for change, working to break down barriers and build better alignment across the education continuum.
Our name tells our story: Education Equals Economics. We believe that children’s educational achievement is the key
to realizing economic prosperity and high quality of life for our Central Texas community. Such achievement requires
systemic change from cradle to career. E3 Alliance is committed to bringing about this change in our community.
In pursuit of systemic change, E3 Alliance is guided by The Blueprint for Educational Change, Central Texas’
strategic plan for improving the educational pipeline from ‘cradle to career’. Our approach to supporting educational
improvement is fundamentally ‘data driven.’ We use the most up-to-date and comprehensive data to drive our work.
We also make this same data available to institutions and individuals working to improve education in Central Texas.
Additionally, as the P16 Council for Central Texas, E3 Alliance has a formal responsibility to our contractual partners
(15 school districts in the five county Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MSA, seven institutions of higher education in
the region, and dozens of social services, early childhood, nonprofit, business and philanthropic partners) to provide
data and analytics for decision-making with the goal of aligning policy and practice. We provide increasingly
sophisticated data and analytics to drive such policy and practice decisions based on ERC data sets since the first
acceptance of ERC research proposals over a decade ago.